This is a compelling piece of journalism accounting for the final weeks in the life of a young man who lived, and died, in communion with nature.

An American writer goes hogwild over soccer and spends a year following the rising and falling fortunes of a small-town Italian side that, against all odds, has made it to the big time. This is heartbreaking, uplifting, no-holds-barred stuff that will captivate you even if you know nothing about soccer!

With wit, humor, and illuminating illustrations from the world of nature, author Sapolsky explains how stress, diet, and inactivity can combine to wreck your health!

I learned a lot from this book about the way we look at the world and how to draw it. Chelsea ingeniously translates a "how to" for would-be comic book artists into a comic book!

This full-color illustrated guide to the world of 18th-19th century naval warfare is an indispensible aid to readers of the Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey novels.

Before he was a president, JFK was a Senator who won a Pulitzer Prize for this slim, yet moving and elegant, book of essays about US Senators who had the courage to stand up for their beliefs against the tide of popular opinion.

The story of the clockmaker whose invention solved the ages-old riddle of how to calculate the longitude of a ship at sea, this was only the first of several extremely readable nonfiction books by Dava Sobel. Look also for "Galileo's Daughter" and "The Planets."

I don't know what drew me to this book, but there is something fascinating about the geometrical relationships that occur in nature, and what a bunch of three-dimensional shapes reveal about mankind's attempts to understand the physical world.

The popular misconceptions about Mozart perpetuated by self-serving biographers may make terrific movies (like Amadeus). But the truth about Mozart can be equally interesting and fun to read!